The work of tribal hands
Subtitle: Southeastern Indian split cane basketry
By: edited by Dayna Bowker Lee and H.F. Pete Gregory ; editorial assistants, Leigh Anne Bramlett, Autumn Campbell ; maps by Michael Fontenot ; cover design by Stacy Fontenot and Don Sepulvado
Contributors: Lee, Dayna Bowker; Gregory, Hiram F; Louisiana Regional Folklife Program; Williamson Museum
Publisher: Northwestern State University Press, Northwestern State University; Northwestern State University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Natchitoches, La
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780917898273
Subjects: Indian baskets -- Southern States; Chitimacha baskets
Notes: "The Louisiana Regional Folklife Program and Williamson Museum, Northwestern State University of Louisiana"

"Funded by grants from the Lower Mississippi Delta Region Initiatives of the National Park Service, and the USDA Forest Service, with the assistance of the Cane River Creole National Historical Park"

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Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction / Gary White Deer; title: ch. 1. The Chitimacha origin of basket weaving / as told by Chief Benjamin Paul; title: ch. 2. Split cane items in Louisiana : a view from archaeology and ethnology / Robert W. Neuman; title: ch. 3. In the family tradition : a conversation with Chitimacha basketmakers John Paul Darden, Scarlett Darden, and Melissa Darden Brown; title: ch. 4. The ties that bind : cane basketry traditions among the Chitimacha and the Jena Band of Choctaw / Dayna Bowker Lee; title: ch. 4. Cane and palmetto basketry of the Choctaw of St. Tammany Parish / Thomas A. Colvin; title: ch. 6. Choctaw cane baskets, 1830 to 1950 : an Oklahoma perspective / Marshall Gettys; title: ch. 7. Asá:la Koasati cane basketry / H.F. Pete Gregory; title: ch. 8. The persistence of Cherokee identity : Rachel Davis and her cane baskets / Sarah H. Hill; title: ch. 9. Signatures : rim forms on historic southern cane baskets / Tom Poulsen; title: ch. 10. Mystery baskets of Cane River : who made them? / Dustin C. Fuqua; title: ch. 11. Five Caddo baskets from Indian territory / Dayna Bowker Lee; title: ch. 12. Qualla crafts / Betty Dupree; title: ch. 13. Marketing Native American crafts / Debra G. Thomas; title: ch. 14. Native cane conservation guide : arundinaria gigantea ssp. tecta, traditionally known as swamp cane / Tim Oakes; title: ch. 15. Contributors